“With a four-day week and an exaggerated work-life balance, prosperity cannot be maintained,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in early January, despite OECD data that shows Germans work even more than they did... Read more »

“With a four-day week and an exaggerated work-life balance, prosperity cannot be maintained,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said early this month, despite OECD data that shows Germans work even more than they did... Read more »

In a classroom in Chennai, India, around 20 nurses are learning German at breakneck speed. They have six months to become fluent enough to work in Germany. Ramalakshi, one of the nurses,... Read more »

Green Party co-chair Franziska Brantner seemed very uncomfortable when she held a press conference in Berlin this week. She had intended to speak about the flashpoints in international politics, Greenland and Ukraine, and... Read more »

Germany has no equivalent of the US’ specialized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, though that would change if the Bavarian branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had its way.... Read more »

Skip next section Europe remembers the Holocaust, 81 years on 01/27/2026January 27, 2026 Europe remembers the Holocaust, 81 years on The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin commemorates the millions of Jews killed by... Read more »

Leon Weintraub can still remember the day the Nazis marched into his Polish hometown of Lodz on September 9, 1939. “There they came, seemingly endless rows of tall, healthy young soldiers in... Read more »

Tim Kurockin, a 21-year-old Jewish student from Bavaria, says he moved to Berlin shortly before October 7, 2023 — the day of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel. Since then, he tells DW,... Read more »

Ministers in Germany and France shot back at US President Donald Trump on for his comments claiming that the US had “never needed” its European NATO allies — despite it being the only NATO member... Read more »